Magicka DK Build - Back in buisness!

StoneSlayer

Unbuffed 5L Stats NO Undaunted Passives Yet!
Unbuffed 5H Stats NO Undaunted Passives Yet!

Hello community, this is my first build post so go easy on me

Race:
I've only tried good old Dark Elf with this build. I belive High Elf and Bosmer works aswell.

General Information:
After experimenting with alot of different setups including magnus, seducer, kagrenac's hope, julianos, willow's path and Twice born star, I've come to a conclusion. Magicka DK's, as you all know aren't in their best form. However this setup is the one I had most fun with PVPing. Both tank testing random groups and doing solo/small group PVP. This is the one i feel most comfortable with. The good thing about this build is that it works with both low and high CP. As it runs twice born star, a set known for working with a low amount of CP.

Goals and Tips
The goal with this build is to get an enjoyable time with the magicka dk without dying every 10 seconds. Theres a few combos you want to learn when playing. For example Meteor and fossilize. Igneous Shield with Coagulating Blood. One thing you never want to do is engage with ultimate, (UNLESS you catch it/them offguard and can blow them up). Resource management with magicka dk is hard (some other classes have it alot easier), so what you want to time is your tri-stat potions and ultimate abilities. This is the reason you alwaya want to save your ultimate, resources. Don't use ult unless you can finish your enemy with it or need the resources, Out-resource manage your opponent if you will.

Champion Points: 359
Noteable with this build is that you need to dumb a big amount of your CP into Blessed and Quick recovery. The rest i split into Magician and Elemental Expert.
Full Champion Points:
Tower: All points in Magician. (85)
Lover: I split my points between Mooncalf and Arcanist. (10 in both)
Shadow: Tumbling. (15)

Apprentice: Blessed: (38), Spell Erosion: A few points. (~5), Elemental Expert Rest (80)
Atronach & Ritual Both empty.

Steed: Block Expertice, With S&B and DK passives i have around 20 points in here, Then i dump 10 into Spell Shield and Resistant.
Lady: 20 in hardy and 25 in elemental defender. (I run Vampire)
Lord: 30 in Quick Recovery, stacks nicely with Blessed

Tri-Stat Food v15

Attributes:
64 in Magicka, here do however you feel here, if you lack HP or Stam add to that.

Mundus Stones:
Atronach (Magicka Regeneration)
Mage (Max Magicka)

Apprentice works aswell instead of Mage, i prefer pool over spell damage however.

Gear:

Heavy: 5
Medium: 1
Light: 1

5x Twice Born Star All max magicka enchants, If you lack HP add from Magicka to that. Vice versa. Minimum 20k Hp in cyro is recommended!
4x Magnus All max magicka enchants here aswell
3x Willpower, Enchantments 2x Magicka Cost Red. 1x Spell Damage. The jewlery traits don't really matter, as dk you need all of them.

Head: Heavy Twice Born Star Divines
Chest: Heavy Twice Born Star Divines
Belt: Light Magnus Divines
Boots: Heavy Twice Born Star Divines
Shoulder: Heavy Twice Born Star Divines
Gloves: Medium Magnus Divines
Legs: Heavy Twice Born Star Divines

2xSword: Magnus Nirnhorned
2xBoard: Magnus Divines
Optional:
Restoration Staff: Magnus Defending

Skill Bars:

Sword and Board:
Structured Entropy, Obvious pick, like to have it on main bar.
Choking Talons, Damage reduction, snare, AOE
Flame Lash, Main "damage"...
Deep Breath, heal and AOE time with Igneous Shield for profit.
Reflective Scales, both morphs work here, I prefer the Damage buff on reflected projectiles.
Ultimate:Devourving Swarm, Nice ultimate, 10% regens.

Sword and Board:
Fossilize, Your main CC, time with meteor.
Elusive Mist, Mobility, escape, 10% regens.
Volatile Armor, Both morphs work, even immovable works here.
Coagulating Blood, Main heal, time with Igneous Shield.
Igneous Shield, Nobrain pick for me, heal buff and shield.
Ultimate:Ice Comet

Optional (basically same as second s&b bar)

Restoration staff:
Fossilize, Your main CC, time with meteor.
Elusive Mist, Mobility, escape, 10% regens.
Volatile Armor, Both morphs work, even immovable works here.
Blessing of restoration, Shield ally can work aswell.
Igneous Shield, Nobrain pick for me, heal buff and shield.
Ultimate:Ice Comet

Lastly the best tip I can give you when it comes to any build is something I learned from a player I respect, Max Karl Ludwig Planck. Shoutout to him. He thaught me and many others never copy and paste builds and expect them to work. Look for what you lack, and adapt to it, change something so that ypu fill your holes and save your boat from sinking.
Thank you for reading and good luck in Cyrodiil!

-Edit1: Fixed Rookie mistakes. Will add full CP tree once i get home.

SneaK

What Mundus Stones?!

Asmael

You didn't mention what food / drink you use (I guess tristat) nor Mundus (Atronach probably) nor glyphs (but guessing Prismatic if you have those)

mertusta

Hey, nice setup, which mundus stones do you have? And did you try impenetrable trait? Thanks!

Berserkur

What about your stats or even your CP's? More information pls

Joy_Division

I don't think people should invest their resources into new builds until the PTS comes out.

StoneSlayer

Oh the rookie mistakes... Fixed and added Full CP tree + unbuffed Stats

Moglijuana

I'm trying to figure out how your physical resistance is so low. I run Magicka DK as well 5l/2h and have 10k phys resistance unbuffed...Or am I trippin?

StoneSlayer

Moglijuana wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out how your physical resistance is so low. I run Magicka DK as well 5l/2h and have 10k phys resistance unbuffed...Or am I trippin?

Actually i am trippin, I have both 5L, 1M, 1H and 5H, 1L, 1M of Twise born star / magnus. I must have had the 5L one on me. Fix Inc. Sorry

Moglijuana

StoneSlayer wrote: »

Moglijuana wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out how your physical resistance is so low. I run Magicka DK as well 5l/2h and have 10k phys resistance unbuffed...Or am I trippin?

Actually i am trippin, I have both 5L, 1M, 1H and 5H, 1L, 1M of Twise born star / magnus. I must have had the 5L one on me. Fix Inc. Sorry

ahhh gotcha, yea with 5h you should be close to 30k I believe

Berserkur

np, interesting Build. Regen is a bit low iMO for my playstyle but overall nice build

Howl

There is a passive in the Ardent Flame line that boosts flame based AoE damage by 6%. I haven't tested but I'm assuming you will want Shooting Star instead of Ice Comet. I use Cinder Storm, which is already a 70% snare so I'd rather have a 6% bigger meteor.

How do you find Coag blood in PvP? I've never tried it as I assumed it would heal a negligible amount of health, even if you're on deaths door and with igneous/blessed/quick recovery.

StoneSlayer

Howl wrote: »

There is a passive in the Ardent Flame line that boosts flame based AoE damage by 6%. I haven't tested but I'm assuming you will want Shooting Star instead of Ice Comet. I use Cinder Storm, which is already a 70% snare so I'd rather have a 6% bigger meteor.

I don't on the other hand use Cinder, I have played with it and it works just as well, but Ice Comet already has the damage i need + it has the ~70 % Snare (Can't remember exactly). It's a two in one for me.

Howl wrote: »

How do you find Coag blood in PvP? I've never tried it as I assumed it would heal a negligible amount of health, even if you're on deaths door and with igneous/blessed/quick recovery.

If i run solo, i usually go with Sword and Board + Resto Staff for the Blessing Of Protection, In general just a bigger heal. In small group (Which I almost always am in) I really like the 8% Increased healing from the ability + CP (+ Possible Passives? Not sure on this, Memory why you fail me) I usually use it a kind of "risk it for the biscuit" method, waiting to fall low before popping it. After that i pop an Ultimate or a tri-stat to get back up to full resources.

Berserkur wrote: »

np, interesting Build. Regen is a bit low iMO for my playstyle but overall nice build

Magicka Regen is low for a reason, Dumping a lot of points in reduce Magicka cost CP and Jewlery. This was actually brought up to me from Skaffa (Shoutout!), you're actually almost casting the ability for free if it costs little enough. My whip cost is around 1.6k at the moment (For reference). I've really been enjoying reduce magicka cost over magicka regen.